#asides

[darkcomedies]

shot at during the dashcon 10th year anniversary no less

[steelheart-redux]

[allwormdiet]

It struck me like, full across the face. Like I so desperately want to know what was going through Brian’s head as he said that. Did he regret his choice of words as soon as they left his mouth? Does he not think it’s weird to have said that? Does watching a girl choke the shit out of someone correctly do something for him?

Brian, please, for the love of god stop being so stoic and let me inside your head, I need to understand you

[will-die-for-janus]

AHHHH ALL THE GUYS IN AN EPISODE AND WE GET TO SEE REMUS AND JANUS’ NEW PLACES IM SO HAPPY!!

[making-me-nameless]

Fighting a War of Assassins also has an option to move me to The Flit without spending a Favourable Circumstance! I was looking forward to using it to get the Forgotten Quarter, but I didn't know about The Flit. What a useful little carousel.

This lets me sell my Hearts' Game proceeds at the Rat Market, and still have a Favourable Circumstance to make sure I can become a Mystic before the next Time, the Healer.

[tuppenceforstardust]

warm wishes this gloomy winter! 🎄✨

[asfaltics]

7522 . 0-1.00-220 . 20241109

quite visibly, he became a sleepwalker.

ex H.J. Kaplan, “Brother Camus,” in Commentary (February 1983) : link  

[katsurinssims]

Love that I started tracking my CC through a spreadsheet so now I know that the average polycount of a hair in my game is 6688.550515 (median 6986, minumum 200 maximum 15000)

[jpagaduanauthor]

Book announcement, and it's a Two For One!

What’s better than one book? Why two, of course! May 31st I’ll be releasing books 1.5 and 2 of The Guardians of Gaia! Asides is book 1.5, and it’s a prequel collection of short stories with some bonus personal AU fun stuff thrown in. Champion of the Dead is book 2, and it’s the direct sequel to Savior of the Damned. The best part is Asides will be free for signing up to my mailing list! Champion…

[ericas-spop-blog]

Okay, splitting out my responses to @the-entire-cast-needs-therapy reply here to at least try to manage the thread...

To be clear, people in the Etherian Horde are definitely hooking up in closets or some shit. Just because it’s not Horde Approved Sex doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Hahaha. Yeah; I tend to get, uh, excessively verbose, but one of the underlying thesis for most of my headcanons is "society is not built from the top down".

It's not 'Person at the top created a comprehensive ~plan~, and it slorped into everyone's brains and now they follow it rigidly forever.' Social rules come from the bottom up, a set of conventions built out of shared beliefs, values, and circumstances; they're emergent from the collective needs and wants of their component citizenry. They're messy and flexible and half-invisible, layers of unspoken assumptions that rarely get unpacked, and while they react to top-down decrees, they don't blithely mirror them.

I definitely think Hordak would find a place to at least include reproductive sex if he had any sense [...] but the Horde is a fucking mess from top to bottom, so I also wouldn’t be surprised if he just didn’t think of it.

I haven't specifically mentioned Hordak because (a) ref. the above on how he can't actually make anyone do shit and (b) yeah, the entire "the Horde is a dumpster fire, and Hordak is the trashheap-in-chief" thing.

I don't think he has an official policy on sex, because I don't think it's ever really occurred to him that "official policy" is a thing he can do. Like, the vast majority of his 'leadership' is literally just him throwing tantrums. Something goes badly, he lashes out at the most convenient target, has a cathartic sulk, and within a day or two has completely forgotten the "rule" he made up to justify his ad-hoc punishments. The thought does not enter his head that he's creating a set of unattainable, self-contradictory 'policies'.

((It's why he's such an incredibly erratic, shitty boss. "Don't ever fuck up!", "Don't come to me for guidance!", but also "How dare you hide this problem from me!". Ffs, no wonder no one wanted Shadow Weaver's job before Catra.))

That said, my general headcanon is that Hordak thinks of sex as "just one of those weird/gross/degenerate things non-clones do", and thus not his problem. It's not like he could convert non-clones to Prime's ways of purity, so he has no reason to stick his (lack of) nose in.

(Except for a prurient curiosity he would absolutely definitely never admit to having. Absolutely never. No matter how pretty Entrapta looks when a project works.)

[darkcomedies]

[steelheart-redux]

this is off topic from everything happening in the story right now, but i want to pet zarian on the head

[allwormdiet]

I mean let’s be fair, being an awkward dork can be very endearing, but. Yeah.

Yeah, see, I cannot believe that he’s like, “normal” or whatever. First of all, nobody who’s got their head on entirely straight goes out there in a silly costume and commits crimes or fights people, and second of all, this arc has Brian showing off some absolutely ludicrous stunts. Like, he does a Goomba stomp on Dauntless ffs, that’s unhinged

I’ve joked with some friends that Brian thinks being boring is a virtue of some kind and I’m becoming increasingly convinced of this. I don’t know how you land on that idea but he seems committed to it

[will-die-for-janus]

Remus is just me with my friends 😭 i’ve never related more to a character

[making-me-nameless]

Apparently, you need to already have Connected: The Widow in order to smuggle crates from the Khanate. Didn't know that (and didn't research it because I didn't know I'd be making this trip until today), I guess every previous time it's come up I've already had it for other reasons. Not a big deal, but a little lost potential.